Complement
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- Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. Template:Defdate
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
- perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love [...].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
- The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. Template:Defdate
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. Template:Defdate
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
- 2009, The Guardian, 30 Oct 09:
- Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. Template:Defdate
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.42:
- A man should be judged by himselfe, and not by his complements.
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.42:
- Fullness (of the moon). Template:Defdate
- 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p. 33:
- The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".
- 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p. 33:
- An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. Template:Defdate
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition. Template:Defdate
- 2009, The Guardian, 13 Dec 09:
- London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.
- 2009, The Guardian, 13 Dec 09:
- A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object. Template:Defdate
- An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. Template:Defdate
- The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). Template:Defdate
- The complement of blue is orange.
- Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement). Template:Defdate
- The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.
- One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. Template:Defdate
- An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. Template:Defdate
- A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- The complement of <math>01100101_2</math> is <math>10011010_2</math>.
- Template:Computing The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- The complement of <math>01100101_2</math> is <math>10011011_2</math>.
- The numeric complement of a number.
- The complement of -123 is 123.
- A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.
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Related terms
- complementary
- counterpart
- full complement
- logical complement
- numeric complement
- radix complement
- diminished radix complement
- ones' complement
- nines' complement
- ten's complement
- two's complement
- subject complement
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